there may be a connection. i m not ruling it out. i m also not saying there was. i think that s yet to be determined. one of the things we learned yesterday. there s a lot more to come. a lot of information out there. we re starting to dig into it on our committee. i think all of us have been to langley and the cia headquarters and going through the classified documents. i have and marco rubio has. i think the other news from yesterday, as you mentioned got buried by the house chair, was we are pursueding in a non-partisan way. i think that is really important. it is not going to be easy. there will be times when it is a strain on that. i think many of the members on both sides realize that vladimir putin is an equal opportunity bad guy. he may have come after the
cruz is up is 12 points while ben carson has plummeted 18 points and the much vaunted marco rubio has, well, barely budged. likewise cruz seems to have seized the momentum in iowa where the caucuses are now just a month and a half away. two new polls show him in a statistical dead heat with trump while a new one from the des moines register has cruz a full ten points ahead. his poll results have been good enough to put cruz right next to trump on the debate stage tomorrow night for the first time. and with the tacit alliance between the two men now seemingly at an end all eyes will be on how they handle each other. in the wake of trump s call to ban muslims from entering the country, almost every republican leader condemned the proposal except ted cruz who merely said that s not my policy. he made a pretty explicit strategy of cozying up to trump and his supporters. and in fact today cruz was cozying up to the very person who appears to have inspired trump s muslim ban. center for secu
to lump marco rubio with president obama and hillary clinton in terms of their foreign policy approach. cruz saying that he would not he would want to leave bashar al assad in syria in place. do you think that distinction can stick? is that a good foreign policy place for ted cruz to be? i think that s a very good distinction because right now we sit there and ted cruz points out that over and over again, we take out these leaders and we don t have i aplan. like this administration does not have a plan in assad comes in and groups like isis come in and take over. this is a good distinction for cruz to make from rubio because they do share a large part of the same base. the other distinction is going to be this immigration policy. the policy that put trump on top, the policy that put cruz on top is severely different from what marco rubio has. so i think this is a great distinction. however, i think the fight going forward is going to be cruz the media or the establishment putting
and i think either one of them, you know, stirs up their own base of support. i think marco rubio has, obviously, carved out a niche on foreign policy and on talking about the various issues that the obama administration has left or created openingsw3 for republicannings. ted cruz fire republicans. ted cruz fires up the base like few do and is standing up to what many many in the party seen establishment that is not getting things done. jon: ted cruz has not made many friends among establishment republicans. he once referred to mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, as a liar, john boehner, the now-departed speaker of the house once referred toรง him asa jackass. he and john mccain have had a lot of back and fort verbal grenades. if ted cruz were to win the nomination, what kind of support could he expect from
i m curious looking at our new poll it showed republican voters think rubio had a strong night. they think cruz had a stronger night in the debate wednesday night. maybe all the attention on rubio. maybe cruz is one to watch here. it s helpful that there is all this attention on rubio and cruz. they are in two different lanes. rubio is in the lane that competes with jeb . cruz is in the lane that competes with ben carson and donald trump. the fact that there is this focus and they both got the boost from the debate maybe does go down to jeb bush s benefit because it allows them to take the path suggesting living off the land and kind of tricky to imagine that here we are talking about or it doesn t make sense and talking about a candidate who raised more than $100 million living off the land. clearly he built a campaign and